I let his words wash over me as I take a few steadying breaths, their heartfelt caress enrapturing me from the top of my head to the tips of my toes. Mind, heart, soul, and all the indefinable things that are the makeup of me in between. And I already know my answer, because I realized something out there in the mud and rain with him yesterday. He will forever own a part of me no one else has ever reached.
